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Bei dem hier angebotenen Material handelt es sich um das beliebte Lesespiel "I have ..who has?" welches sich sehr gut als Eisbrecher am Anfang der Stunde eignet

Make your Early Societies to 1500 CE social studies unit come alive in your Grade 4 Ontario classroom! Read this blog post about creating an early societies artifact museum.

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How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

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Make teaching telling time more fun and hands-on with these telling time math centers. Eight ready to go centers that have minimal prep, but maximum fun. Students practice reading a clock through games, task cards, puzzles, matching activities, interactive notebooks, and more. These activities are designed for 2nd grade, but could be adapted for first grade or even 3rd grade.

This science fair project idea highlights decomposition rates by comparing how long it takes an item to decompose in a compost pile vs. a landfill.

Looking for a no prep, interactive way to teach compound sentences? My students love partner work, and I love when my students are engaged and motivated! I have many students on my caseload who struggle with sentence combining, and have seen great success using these worksheets! I have seen students have more ‘buy in’ when they can create sentences to combine on their own, instead of being given a worksheet with sentences to combine. This activity is great for whole group or small group sessions. To scaffold this activity and ensure that sentences are ‘easier’ to combine, you can have each student in your small group create their sentences and then you can act as their partner, providing sentences that will be able to be combined in a more predictable way. Included: →5 pages for Fall →5 pages for Winter →5 pages for Spring →5 pages for Summer →1 create your own page If you have any questions about this resource, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you in a timely manner. ★ Click the green star by my store name to never miss a sale! ★ ❯❯ All new products will be 50% off for the first 48 hours ❮❮ Leaving reviews will earn you FREE TpT credits!

Most districts are now requiring teachers to provide data-driven differentiation. What can you do for those students who are labeled as gifted learners? If they are already high achievers, it can be difficult to help them reach a higher level of success. These tips will help you and your students achieve their goals and keep you from pulling your hair out! Let's start by defining each of the terms. What does data-driven mean? Data-driven is when data from test scores are broken down and used as the foundation for instruction. What is differentiating instruction? Differentiating instruction is when teachers modify instructional ideas, tools, resources, and/or activities to meet the students' individual needs. For example, teachers may use leveled books so each student can read about the same material on their own reading level. Who is the gifted learner? A gifted child may have some of the following traits: creative extreme curiosity sensitive perfectionist vivid imagination resourceful independent quick thinking self-critical excellent reasoning skills learns quickly without extra practice advanced sense of humor extensive vocabulary an avid reader leadership abilities very observant interested in cause-effect relations dominate discussions variety of interests good at synthesizing self-confident concerned with justice and fairness risk-taker very inquisitive full of energy able to work independently The identity of a gifted learner is different in each state. Find your State Definitions of Giftedness The tips below helped my gifted learners show improvement throughout the year and on their academic progress assessments. 1. READING The best way to increase reading test scores for the gifted learner is to have high-quality literature at their fingertips and provide students with the opportunity to have discussions focused on critical thinking questions. Their lessons should be developed using classic stories and novels. The Junior Great Books Series is an exceptional choice. It offers both fiction and nonfiction text. The fictional anthologies have high-quality literature that is based around student-centered discussions for comprehension and critical thinking. It also includes writing. The nonfiction series offers high-quality informational text with an inquiry-based learning format. Reading classic novels is another option. The following is a list of some of my favorite classic novels: Secret Garden Treasure Island Charlotte's Web Anne of Green Gables A Wrinkle in Time The Hobbit Black Beauty Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Are you looking for a Secret Garden Unit that will keep your students engaged in higher-level thinking in every chapter? In addition there is a vocabulary quiz, character chart, and test! Are you looking for critical-thinking skill questions and plans for any book? These may be helpful: HIGHER-LEVEL REASONING- BOOK RESPONSE QUESTIONS READING STRATEGIES WORKSHEETS 2. MATH The best way to increase math test scores for the gifted learner is by acceleration. Enrichment definitely helps, but acceleration gets the job done. Most gifted learners can learn at a quicker rate and don't need review and extra practice. If you can allow your gifted students progress through the curriculum at a faster rate, then you can use higher grade-level concepts once finished with the grade-level plans. These students will be able to grasp the grade-level material as well as advanced material in one year. Most gifted learners will be able to follow written instructions. If not, a quick lesson for the small group may be needed. Remember: They don't need the repetitive practice. Give them an anchor chart or poster with directions and examples or a quick video from Khan Academy and wahhhlllaaaa! 3. PRIOR TO THE STATE TEST Even if you haven't had the time for much differentiating throughout the year, this next idea will be helpful prior to the test. First, make sure you have the standards for a grade level higher. Then, highlight vocabulary terms in both reading and math as well as advanced math concepts. Create three lists of 12-20 new words and/or concepts. Three weeks prior to the state test, provide a list each week to the gifted learner. While you are reviewing grade-level content with the rest of your class, these students will be learning new words and concepts. It can be achieved through self-learning or a project-based activity. It works well independently or in a small group. The gifted learner should be accountable for their learning through grading the project or an assessment. I hope these ideas help you differentiate for your gifted learners!!!!! Connect With Me! TPT Store Facebook Pinterest My Blog

When introducing students to biographies, use this FREE biography download to engage your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students plus question them appropriately.

This is a game to practice telling time. It can be used at ANY level because I have left the clocks blank for you to write in. Copy the blank clock 12 times on cardstock and laminate. Write with a vis-a-vis (or sharpie if you want it to be permanent) the times you are working on along with a letter of the alphabet (A-J). Put the clocks around the room and have your students walk around with a clipboard "spying" the analog clocks and writing the digital times on their recording sheet. Easy, peasy, lemon, squeezey {mac and cheezy}!

We, at Noorart, believe that teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:1. Elements: Sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation 2. Skills: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening 3. Linguistic Functions: Introduction, greetings, description , requests, and apologies. Series Contents:The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results. Support Material:Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio records, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students. Student Textbook:The Student Textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 18 basic units of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision which appear after every 4th unit. Each basic unit contains 3 lessons of new material talks about: daily works and activities, family, relevant, and Identity, and the services of around environment, and including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. While at part 2 the lessons talks about: caring about cleaning. The book concentrates on daily activities, identity, family and relatives, society and services, health, holidays and religious occasions and hoppy and time spending. And The lessons applied through dialogue and speech skills, conversations, vocabulary and listening, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, ahadith and anasheed. These textbooks also include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals. Activity Book:The activity books simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks, where each basic unit of the student's book has 5 pages in the Activity book. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. The book contains reading, writing sentences & filling the spaces by using pictures, making questions and sentences, dictation and matching. The book concentrates on practicing writing and enhancing what student earn from the textbook. Some of the workbook activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

The Cuyahoga River in Ohio isn't the biggest or the most scenic river in the United States, but it played an important part in American society.

Third grade economics can be SO engaging and memorable for students. With these quick economics activities your students will learn so much!

It’s voting time and these are my favorite read alouds to pair with my voting unit! Around America to Win the Vote by Mara Rockliff Simply wonderful. This book tells the story of two women w…

Currently, we are in our social issues unit in reading workshop (one of my favorite units!) and students are in book clubs. Last week, to launch the unit, we discussed the purpose of the social issues unit and students brainstormed why they think we have a social issues unit. As students shared their ideas and opinions about the purpose, I jotted them down on the chart below. I always launch units by having this type of conversation with the students because I believe it is so important for students to know and understand the WHY behind our units and lessons. This is our first book club unit of the year so we also brainstormed and discussed the purpose of book clubs. Students have been participating in book clubs since 3rd grade so they come to 5th grade with book club experience. Below is a chart we created as a class to list students' ideas about preparing for and having a successful book club conversation. So far in the unit, we have been learning how to use specific lenses to deepen our thinking about the social issues our characters are dealing with in our books. For example, reading with the lens of fairness - what is fair or unfair in this text? Or reading with the lens of acceptance - who is accepted or rejected in this text and why? Or reading with the lens of power - who has power and who doesn't? Whose voice is being heard and whose isn't? Below is a chart listing our mini-lesson teaching points so far for this unit. Students have been applying these teaching points in the social issue books they have chosen to read with their book clubs and we are also applying them as a class in our read alouds. Stay tuned to hear more about our thinking and learning in our social issues unit! :)

What I love about teachers is their creativity. In this tour shares about her classroom which has portable walls and is in a gym. It's great to learn from Montessori Teachers around the world. To see more classrooms in our classroom tour series click here ---- Hello! I am Elizabeth Stead and I teach Lower Elementary a

When introducing students to biographies, use this FREE biography download to engage your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students plus question them appropriately.

Planning narrative writing is a part of our writing instruction we often overlook. Check out these writing lessons for ideas to help teach narrative writing

When introducing students to biographies, use this FREE biography download to engage your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students plus question them appropriately.

Supply and demand is an abstract concept. Many third-graders have a hard time grasping that concept unless it is taught to them in a way that they can relate to. The key to teaching supply and demand is the ability to take the concept and apply it to things that third-graders understand.

I have been using a classroom economy system in my classroom for 5 years now. Our economy system is check based, I don't use any cash at all...

Learn how to meet the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum for Strand A (Heritage & Identity) in a Gr. 4/5 class using the big ideas of the curriculum.

Do you need additional teaching resources? Check out Text Structures at Teachers Pay Teachers. Text Structures Bundled Set includes the units Cause and Effect, Problems and Solutions, Compare and Cont

Reviewing to pass the ATI TEAS reading section? Learn exactly what is on the reading TEAS test and how you can get a good score on the TEAS 7.

Map of trade routes across the Atlantic Ocean

When introducing students to biographies, use this FREE biography download to engage your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students plus question them appropriately.

All about Canada: what every kid should know about being a Canadian citizen.